Artist	Song
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	New San Antonio Rose
from Legends of Country Music: The Best of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (2006)
Merle Haggard	Big City
from Merle Haggard - His Epic Hits (1985)
George Jones	The Grand Tour
from The Essential George Jones (2006)
Lefty Frizzell	If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
from Look What Thoughts Will Do (1997)
Hank Williams	Honky Tonk Blues
from Hank Williams: 40 Greatest Hits (1988)
Frank Sinatra	I Get a Kick Out of You
from Classic Sinatra - His Great Performances, 1953-1960 (2000)
Guy Clark	Rita Ballou
from The Essential Guy Clark (1997)
Gene Autry	Back In the Saddle Again
from The Essential Gene Autry (2005)
Ray Price	My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
from The Essential Ray Price (2007)
Johnny Cash	I Walk the Line
from With His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)
Ernest Tubb	Walking the Floor Over You
from Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection (2006)
Hank Thompson & His Brazo Valley Boys	A Six Pack to Go
from Vintage Collections (1996)
Asleep At the Wheel	Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
from Texas Gold / Comin' Right At Ya (2008)
Johnny Rodriguez	Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico
from Johnny Rodriguez: The Hits (1997)
Doug Sahm	(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone (Single Version)
from The Best of Doug Sahm's Atlantic Sessions (2005)

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If you ever wondered how George Strait built the bridge between classic and modern country, look no further for the blueprints; [i]this[/i] music, [i]these[/i] musicians, taught the master. You can actually hear country music coming down from the hills and taking its first, tentative steps into the bright city lights as Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys serve up a Tex-Mex combo plate of drums and horns with a side of Western swing on "New San Antonio Rose." The Okie from Muskogee, Merle Haggard — actually a native of Bakersfield, California — isn't quite so enchanted with the urban cowboy life and yearns for some Big Sky, range-ridin' simplicity in "Big City." And if ever a singer [i]defined[/i] city slick, it's Strait's longtime hero, crooner Frank Sinatra, jet-setting his way through Cole Porter's "I Get a Kick Out of You." From fellow Texan Doug Sahm to Hank Williams, the Alabama kid who [i]defined[/i] Nashville, we've got all the sounds and styles that shaped one of country's all-time Hall of Famers.

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